Do you let your kids wear character shirts?

[Anonymous]

This morning I went to drop my child off at their new, more fancy preschool than the last one. We moved and this one is closer to our house. As soon as I arrived this thread was ricocheting through my mind. My child loves a certain character, which I happily bought her a backpack, matching water bottle, and lunchbox with this "character them". She was, and continues to be, delighted with these items.

But, dear lord it was out of place here. All the children had LL Bean backpacks with their names monogrammed on, or a canvas tote with a monogram, absolutely no character backpacks. One of the teachers, a bottle blonde dripping in jewelry and quilted attire, gave me the straight head to toe look that was like WTF are you (granted, I wasn't dressed amazingly). Peak DCUM!

Thankfully, my child's teacher was much more down to earth and great. P

I'm off to order an LL Bean backpack or tote, monogrammed, a contigo water bottle, and my youngest baby will be attired in something striped and navy. Wish me luck in prying my daughters character shirt, backpack, lunchbox, and water bottle out of her little paws.

[Anonymous]

Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

[Anonymous]

My seven year old only wants to wear clothes he can play sports in (think lots of basketball shorts, jerseys, etc.). I wonder where this puts me in DCUM hierarchy? Is this higher or lower class than *gasp* character shirts. Oh, but he feels good about himself and loves being active. I’d rather he be able to run around and move than put him in stuffy clothes that look like a catalogue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’m now picturing you getting down to business in an Iron Man sleep t-shirt and I love it. More power to you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This morning I went to drop my child off at their new, more fancy preschool than the last one. We moved and this one is closer to our house. As soon as I arrived this thread was ricocheting through my mind. My child loves a certain character, which I happily bought her a backpack, matching water bottle, and lunchbox with this "character them". She was, and continues to be, delighted with these items.

But, dear lord it was out of place here. All the children had LL Bean backpacks with their names monogrammed on, or a canvas tote with a monogram, absolutely no character backpacks. One of the teachers, a bottle blonde dripping in jewelry and quilted attire, gave me the straight head to toe look that was like WTF are you (granted, I wasn't dressed amazingly). Peak DCUM!

Thankfully, my child's teacher was much more down to earth and great. P

I'm off to order an LL Bean backpack or tote, monogrammed, a contigo water bottle, and my youngest baby will be attired in something striped and navy. Wish me luck in prying my daughters character shirt, backpack, lunchbox, and water bottle out of her little paws.

Be the change you want to see.

Your daughter clearly likes these ideas and it is better to know the classist strivers and elitist snobs early. If your child wanted to dress differently that would be a different discussion, but don't buy a whole new kit because someone thinks else thinks your preschooler's style is good enough. There are enough real problems in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid wore a grubby Elmo shirt for days on end, and he's in engineering school now. There is a direct correlation.

My daughter wore an entire Cinderella costume to preschool every day for a year complete with red sparkly shoes from Target. Adorable. She's now in advertising.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand the concern cited in this question. What is wrong with characters on your shirt, especially for kids? In fact, I just got my DH a shirt from 80s tees depicting Judd Nelson's iconic fist in the air at the end of the Breakfast Club; does that make me classless?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’m now picturing you getting down to business in an Iron Man sleep t-shirt and I love it. More power to you!

THAT would be ridiculous......my jammies are Captain America 😆

Plus my partner looks like Aquaman. It's like Comic Con in our bedroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’ll join this party... 40 year old CPA currently rocking a Firefly T-shirt. Oh noes, some moms will think I’m not classy! Guess I better go conform...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’m now picturing you getting down to business in an Iron Man sleep t-shirt and I love it. More power to you!

THAT would be ridiculous......my jammies are Captain America 😆

Plus my partner looks like Aquaman. It's like Comic Con in our bedroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’m now picturing you getting down to business in an Iron Man sleep t-shirt and I love it. More power to you!

THAT would be ridiculous......my jammies are Captain America 😆

Plus my partner looks like Aquaman. It's like Comic Con in our bedroom.

I think aquaman and caltain America getting it on is probably the subject of some really hot fan fic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’m now picturing you getting down to business in an Iron Man sleep t-shirt and I love it. More power to you!

THAT would be ridiculous......my jammies are Captain America 😆

Plus my partner looks like Aquaman. It's like Comic Con in our bedroom.

I think aquaman and caltain America getting it on is probably the subject of some really hot fan fic.

Omg character fanfic is SO low class.

But some fanfic about a three way between the Brooks Brothers and Huge Boss? Now that’s something you can show off to the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dang. I’m a 35 year old woman and I wear character shirts. I’ve got a kickass collection of Marvel shirts.

I may be low class, but I make good money. Zero issues with my kids, we have fantastic relationships. Have an awesome partner that pleasures TF out of me regularly. Life doesn’t get much better.

I’m now picturing you getting down to business in an Iron Man sleep t-shirt and I love it. More power to you!

THAT would be ridiculous......my jammies are Captain America 😆

Plus my partner looks like Aquaman. It's like Comic Con in our bedroom.

I think aquaman and caltain America getting it on is probably the subject of some really hot fan fic.

Omg character fanfic is SO low class.

But some fanfic about a three way between the Brooks Brothers and Huge Boss? Now that’s something you can show off to the neighbors.

Well I assume there would be some dramatic revelation of cheating when someone discovers the briefcase has the wrong monogram?

[Anonymous]

I imagine the brooks brothers as looking and acting like the two old guys in Trading Places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This morning I went to drop my child off at their new, more fancy preschool than the last one. We moved and this one is closer to our house. As soon as I arrived this thread was ricocheting through my mind. My child loves a certain character, which I happily bought her a backpack, matching water bottle, and lunchbox with this "character them". She was, and continues to be, delighted with these items.

But, dear lord it was out of place here. All the children had LL Bean backpacks with their names monogrammed on, or a canvas tote with a monogram, absolutely no character backpacks. One of the teachers, a bottle blonde dripping in jewelry and quilted attire, gave me the straight head to toe look that was like WTF are you (granted, I wasn't dressed amazingly). Peak DCUM!

Thankfully, my child's teacher was much more down to earth and great. P

I'm off to order an LL Bean backpack or tote, monogrammed, a contigo water bottle, and my youngest baby will be attired in something striped and navy. Wish me luck in prying my daughters character shirt, backpack, lunchbox, and water bottle out of her little paws.

Don't you dare change a thing about your little girl!